WEBVTT 00:00:50.000 --> 00:01:02.000 Hi everyone, my name is Chris Freeland and I'm a librarian at the Internet Archive. I want to welcome you to today's webinar about controlled digital lending and the Internet Archive's Open Libraries program. 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:13.000 So control digital lending or CDL is the library practice that empowers libraries to lend digitize versions of their print books in a controlled environment. 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:26.000 Now the Internet Archive has been lending books online through control digital lending for about 10 years now, but the field has changed rapidly and dramatically over the past year and a half, largely due to COVID it but also just due to changes in the 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:37.000 library environment. So over the next 50 minutes or so we're going to walk through how controlled digital lending works, and how libraries are using it to meet the needs of their communities. 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:48.000 And I'm also going to tell you today about the internet archives open libraries program, which is a free program that libraries can join to participate in our control digital lending service. 00:01:48.000 --> 00:02:01.000 We're going to walk through practical examples of how libraries are using CDL and the open libraries program to solve real world problems for their operations and for the communities that they serve. 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:11.000 A little bit about me maybe to give some background and help ground the conversation. I'm Chris Freeland I'm the director of the open libraries program again at the Internet Archive, and I'm a librarian. 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:19.000 I've worked at the Internet Archive for almost four years now, and before that I was an associate University Library and at Washington University in St. 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:34.000 Louis. And before that, I was the director of the Center for biodiversity informatics at the Missouri botanical garden and throughout all of those projects for the past 15 years, I've actually worked in collaboration with the Internet Archive, helping 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:49.000 to digitize materials and make them available as widely available as technology and copyright will permit, and now I'm on the inside helping other libraries take advantage of the services that the Internet Archive makes available so you have my contact 00:02:49.000 --> 00:03:03.000 information there in front of you, please don't hesitate to reach out if you have, as you have questions. Now, this session is part of our library Leaders Forum, which is a four week series of events that exploring issues related to digital ownership 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:15.000 and the future of library collections. So our first full session of the forum is tomorrow. On October, 13, at 10am Pacific or 1pm Eastern and you can register at library. 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:18.000 Leaders forum.org. 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:31.000 Now, I'm going to put a bunch of links in front of you today I'm going to talk about a lot of different resources, and I've actually made a handy little link share document that has all of the links that I'm going to be sharing today so I pasted that 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:37.000 into the chat, you can follow along with the links I believe they're mostly in chronological order. 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:43.000 So, so follow along and that's also a resource that you can use afterwards. 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:53.000 So here's the game plan for today we're going to talk about how control digital lending works. I'm going to talk a little bit about the open libraries program. 00:03:53.000 --> 00:04:06.000 We're going to show some examples from our open libraries partners, and then we'll, we'll also talk about how to participate. Now, here's the here's the deal that I'll make with you, there's a, we have 78 people right now in the session and the number 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:12.000 is continuing to go up a little bit so hopefully there's going to be some great questions. 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:22.000 Well I've had the opportunity of talking with a lot of people about control digital lending and I understand it can be kind of difficult So ask your questions throughout, please use the q amp a feature to submit questions. 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:34.000 It's also organized so that everyone can up vote questions that you'd like to see me answered a little note I am the only person working behind the scenes here this is like a one man band. 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:39.000 So we've disabled the chat just to keep it a little bit easier in terms of management. 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:50.000 So, submit your questions in the moment, and I'll take breaks a couple of points throughout the way to dip in and to answer those questions so, so please, please do ask questions. 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:59.000 Now I asked at the start, about your familiarity with controlled digital lending and I'd like to show those results now, I'm going to end the poll and I'm going to share the results. 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:15.000 Now, this. I'm going to read the results here because they don't always make it to the recording so in the question that we asked was how familiar are you with control digital lending and here are the results so we have 12%, a total of 77 people answered 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:33.000 So 12% are very familiar 29% are moderately familiar, which is the winner which has the most number of votes for today. And then 22% somewhat familiar 21% slightly familiar and 17% not at all familiar. 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:46.000 So this is really interesting because I've had the opportunity of talking with people for a couple years now about control digital lending. And normally, that is much more of a bell curve where they are actually a sort of a lower curve where there were 00:05:46.000 --> 00:06:00.000 lots of people who were slightly familiar or not at all familiar. And what's great to see is that over the past year and a half through our work in an outreach and just general familiarity about control digital lending, we're now seeing a number of people 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:02.000 who are very familiar. 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:12.000 Here's what I hope you take away from this regardless of where you are, you are not alone in your understanding of control digital lending there's a breadth of understanding among the crowd here today. 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:26.000 So thank you for participating. This helps me tailor the presentation a bit and hopefully it helps you understand that, that there are a number of people who you might fall in your same category of your understanding of control digital lending. 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:35.000 The purpose of this session is so that everyone can come away with a common baseline understanding of control digital lending, so thank you for joining in. 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:48.000 One thing. One other thing that I'd like to mention here is at the start, we do have live transcripts available so if you want to kick that on you can click on the live transcript feature to show automated subtitles. 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:50.000 Throughout today's session. 00:06:50.000 --> 00:07:04.000 Now, how control digital lending works so control digital lending comes from both the library and the copyright communities, what's now called control digital lending was originally envisioned by librarian and Professor of Law Michelle Woo, when our law 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:15.000 library in Houston was destroyed by floods. Now, the linear model was then described and named in a white paper by Kyle Courtney from Harvard and Dave Hanson from Duke. 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:28.000 As I mentioned, I've had the opportunity of talking at this point now with thousands of librarians and and other people interested in control digital lending, and I know it can be a little bit difficult to wrap your mind around. 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:42.000 And so we've created a quick explainer video to help out so let's take a look at that now. 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:53.000 Meet Leonard. He's 82, and loves reading about World War Two history, but the nearest library branch is 50 miles away, and you can only get there, a couple times a year. 00:07:53.000 --> 00:08:05.000 This is Nina, she's 16, and wants to be an environmental scientist, because she has dyslexia, Nina uses a special device to read, but it's hard to get the book she needs and any digital format. 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:08.000 As a result, she's falling behind. 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:21.000 For centuries, libraries have put books into the hands of those who need them helping millions to build better lives, and creating inform citizens, but many people still face barriers to accessing knowledge. 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:34.000 Thankfully, a practice called control digital lending is already helping to bridge these divides it works like this, let's say, a library buys a book that's what libraries do they buy lots and lots of books. 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:40.000 The library scans the book, and now they have a digital version to lend as well. 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:49.000 In the CD L system. If the patron checks out the digital copy the hard copy becomes inaccessible. And if a second reader wants to borrow that digital version. 00:08:49.000 --> 00:09:06.000 She has to wait for it to be returned CDs uses digital rights management technology to ensure at the end of your digital loan, the file gets locked and automatically deleted the same tools that ebook publishers use to prevent piracy control digital lending 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:18.000 is a common sense evolution of what libraries have been doing for centuries, buying books and loaning them to patrons for free. It gives me not access to millions of titles that work with her adaptive reading device. 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:26.000 It means that even in a pandemic Leonard can continue learning while staying safe and think about the future of learning. 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:37.000 We can search through a million bucks in just a few seconds, and we can rest assured that these digitized books will be available for future generations safe from damage or disaster. 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:47.000 With control digital lending libraries continue to fulfill their essential MISSION. Making knowledge, accessible to everyone. 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:56.000 For more information, or to support controlled digital lending visit empowering libraries.org. 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:08.000 That's a really helpful video and actually it's gotten quite a, quite a number of views at the Internet Archive, and that is one of the resources that's listed there in the, in the link stock. 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:19.000 So, now that you have that background about how control digital lending works in general, I'm going to talk about how control digital lending works at the Internet Archive how we've implemented it. 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:28.000 So many people are familiar with the internet archives Wayback Machine, but maybe not as many people are familiar with the fact that the Internet Archive has a physical library. 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:44.000 We built a lending library, now that has more than 2.9 million modern books and we're growing that collection at 2000 more than 2000 books a day. So, this is Brewster Gail, who is the internet archives founder in digital library and sitting with the sample 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:47.000 of some of the physical books from our collection. 00:10:47.000 --> 00:11:02.000 And we get our books through purchase and from donations and today I want to talk to you through a significant donation from Mary Grove college. So America of college was founded in 1905 by the sisters servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and it 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:18.000 moved to the Detroit campus, which you're seeing here in 1927. So America was originally a women's college, it became coed in the 1970s, and in recent years it was known for its graduate programs in human resource management and social justice. 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:33.000 But in 2017 facing financial hardship Marin Grove eliminated, its undergraduate programs. And then, in January of 2019. They announced that the entire college would close in December of 2019. 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:46.000 And so a central question for Dr. Elizabeth burns the president of the college was what would happen to the library and it's 70,000 volumes of books and 3000 journal volumes. 00:11:46.000 --> 00:12:03.000 So they spoke with the librarians at Wayne State University which is also local in Detroit, but Wayne State wasn't in a position to take the materials taking 70,000 books is a hard task for for a library at a college library in the university setting. 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:14.000 Now, the college had a relationship with better world books and use them for we did materials, and in the regular course of collection management, but because the entire institution was closing. 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:20.000 They wanted the library materials to stay together as an intellectual unit as a complete collection. 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:35.000 And so, after a series of conversations, Dr burns and the trustees at marriage broke college decided to donate the contents of the library to the Internet Archive and you're seeing an interior interior shot here of the American College Library. 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:46.000 And the reason why they wanted to donate that whole collection was so that the library would be digitized and preserved, helping the legacy of the college live on for future scholars. 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:57.000 So we worked with Mary Grove staff and with a team of workers to box up the entire library, and to ship it to our physical archive for staging and storage before being sent for digitization. 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:10.000 And what you're seeing here is some of the results of that labor with books in boxes boxes on pallets, those pellets or shrink wrapped, and then put into storage containers for transport. 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:24.000 Here's some of those storage containers. And then, after digitization the books returned to our physical archive and our physical books don't circulate, they're stored out of circulation and are preserved in the physical archives like you're seeing a 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:36.000 section of here. And just to be clear, these are storage containers like you would see being pulled behind a semi on the highway or going on a, on a barge across the ocean. 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:50.000 You can store a lot of books in this environment, and we do so again because our physical books don't circulate we know where all of those books are stored, but the physical doesn't circulate, and to rather than circulating the physical books. 00:13:50.000 --> 00:14:00.000 We circulate a scanned copy through controlled digital lending, and we make those 2 million now 2.9 million modern books available for to our patrons. 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:17.000 For our patrons to borrow through our website, and those 70,000 books from Mary Grove are now digitize and are part of this lending library, and are available for anyone to check out and to borrow, and the kind of feedback that we got from stakeholders 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:35.000 from staff at Mary Grove college from the trustees from the alumni from students was, you know, sad, and hopeful, and you can see this here is expressed by America come see me who was the librarian who the final library and it broke college, close the 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:44.000 the library saying that I feel that sadly the college is closing but the library is not, it's reemerging in a different form. 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:56.000 At this point, what I'd like to do is now go into a demo of how control digital lending works in as pretty as in production here at the Internet Archive. 00:14:56.000 --> 00:15:07.000 This is also a good point as you have questions, don't forget to throw those into the, into the q amp a, and I'll pick them up we'll stop for questions just after the after the demo. 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:12.000 So let me, let me share a new screen here. 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:15.000 should we let me get one other thing going. 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:22.000 Let's share this document. 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:28.000 Looks like it did not share. Let's try it again. 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:42.000 There we go. So, I'm going to walk through how control digital lending works at the Internet Archive. And like any library website you can start at our front page you can do a search general search there in the in the big search box and do a search for 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:59.000 a title or an author and be presented with all of the results that we have across our catalog for those materials, but I'm going to do a different path through our collection I'm going to show you how we've integrated our books with Wikipedia. 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:11.000 Now, the Internet Archive has a long and successful history with the, with Wikimedia Foundation and with Wikipedia itself. And we worked on a project we're continuing to work on a project where we've done a couple of things. 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:26.000 One, we did a citation analysis across all of the Wikipedia, and nine different languages and looking at what books have been cited in Wikipedia, and if those books have been cited with an ISP and now I know that there are problems with ISP ends are not 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:34.000 Now I know that there are problems with ISP ends are not always unique it doesn't cover all materials, but it was an easy way for us to take a first pass at this. 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:51.000 So we went through did a citation analysis gathered up all of the books cited by Wikipedia, with an ESPN and have done a citation analysis to connect those books to the directly those citations directly to the cited pages in the scan books, and I'm going 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:58.000 to show you that now. So we're here on one of my favorite pages and Wikipedia the Washington Austin page. 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:13.000 And the reason why I love this is because it naturally had this, I discovered this link that that demonstrated the really the the value of what I believe is the value of the relationship between Wikipedia and Internet Archive, with the cited materials. 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:24.000 So Washington Alston is an American was an American painter and poet, living in and around Boston the Austin neighborhood in Boston Boston is named after Washington. 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:27.000 Washington Halston. 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:41.000 So I'm going to scroll down here into the biography section of the page and you'll see some assertions that have been made by Wikipedia editors, you can see that the those editors have said that Austin was born on a rice plantation on the Walk a Mile 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:57.000 near Georgetown South Carolina, and then go on to talk a little bit about his mother and his father, and they show that all of this information has been cited in this reference for the book, the south and American culture by Jay Hubble published in 1954 00:17:57.000 --> 00:18:08.000 by Duke University Press. So I'm going to click on this reference to be taken down to the work cited at the bottom of the page. So I'm looking here at the reference now in context. 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:28.000 And, and this is the, here's the magic that we have put together in our work with Wikipedia. So, where these books were cited by is being we've now linked directly into the citation, not only at the book page but if the editors have left a page number, 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:34.000 then we can go directly into that page and I'm going to show you that now so I'm going to click on page 274. 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:41.000 In that citation and will be taken into a page here in Wikipedia. 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:53.000 And I'm going to zoom in and do a little reference check. We are here the south and American literature by Jay Hubble published in 1954, and I'm going to look here on the screen. 00:18:53.000 --> 00:19:03.000 Oh, see if I can do this. So on screen, I am looking at page 274 and in fact I am at the Washington Alston entry in. 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:14.000 In this book, and the original author Jay Hubble has said that Austin was born on a plantation on the walk Mr river in South Carolina not far from Georgetown. 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:33.000 So what we've done here is check the reference online, we've gone to Wikipedia, we've looked at the assertions made by Wikipedia editors, we've looked at the citation, we've followed the citation we've now gone into this page to read the the cited information 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:46.000 we've fact we've checked that fact. Now, I love this example there's there are some people, clearly who were looking at the, at the link shared and and working ahead because this book is checked out and I can guarantee. 00:19:46.000 --> 00:20:00.000 No one ever check this book out I think I'm the only person who ever check this book out in in demo. And I'm, I'm really happy that that has happened because what I want to be able to show you is that this book is already checked out so I can check the 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:13.000 reference we can look at this page, but I can't see the remainder of the book I can only see when I come in from Wikipedia reference I can only see the book the page cited and the page after. 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:24.000 And if I want to do a deeper dive. If I want to read the rest of the book if I want to learn more about other southern writers or I want to read additional parts of of the Washington, Austin entry. 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:40.000 I would click to borrow the book, but as you can see from the prompt on screen. Another patron is using this book. This book is not available for me to check out because it's already checked out by another patron, I can check it out. 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:55.000 This is one of the controls and control digital lending, we maintain an owned to loan ratio between the number of physical copies in hand and the number of digital copies Lent, in the case of this book, we have a single physical copy that single copy 00:20:55.000 --> 00:21:09.000 is now checked out so I as a user would need to come back and and check this book out like wait for it to become available and to check it out again. If we have additional copies if we have more than one copy and they're all checked out as well. 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:20.000 We get the opportunity for doing a 14 day loan, and for adding your name to a waitlist but where we just have one copy and the cases, as is the case with this book. 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:36.000 I can only, only one person at a time can can check it out. So, the Book is not Available for me to do that deeper dive, but I'll come back if if I want to check this reference or if I want to dive a little deeper I'll come back to this book, but one 00:21:36.000 --> 00:21:52.000 of what I want to show. So when the book is in preview mode, you can view the Cited page you can view the front matter of the book or the back matter of the book but not the, the pages you have to be able to check the book out to read it. 00:21:52.000 --> 00:22:08.000 But I'm going to go into the front matter to show you why I think this book is such an important example. This book came from Mary Grove library. The reason why we were able to check this reference to connect it to Wikipedia is that this book was donated 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:23.000 by Mary grow college we preserve the original it's in our physical collection. We've scanned it made it available through controlled digital lending and now connected it to Wikipedia so that this remember this was a book that was an enclosed library collection 00:22:23.000 --> 00:22:35.000 the college the entire college closed. This book has now been preserved and made available for anyone, anywhere to read and to learn and to use in your studies. 00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:45.000 I think that's pretty, pretty important. You know what we're doing here is providing single click access to the verifiable facts that are contained in our library collections. 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:58.000 And I think that's pretty important. Now I see we've had a couple of questions that have that have come in so all I'm going to stop our demo now and and and to go into some of those questions. 00:22:58.000 --> 00:23:02.000 Let me go back to our main slides. 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:04.000 Here's a couple of questions. 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:15.000 So the aren't there copyright issues with scanning an entire book. So, I'm a librarian and a former biologist not a copyright expert, we've actually pulled together. 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:30.000 This is a question that we encounter frequently. And in fact, you can scan an entire book, and I'll show I'll give you more information that's one of the frequently asked questions and also it's a myth about control digital lending that you can't scan 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:34.000 an entire book, and I'll tell you about more about that in just a minute. 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:42.000 Another question is, if you only have one copy is there not the option to do a waitlist and that's correct so if we just have a single copy, because it's an hour. 00:23:42.000 --> 00:24:00.000 The, where we have one copy those are only available for one hour loans. And because of the notifications, and the delays the copy the where we have just a single copy its first come first serve, if you are if no one's checking out the book then you can 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:12.000 check out the book and you can read it again where we have additional copies where we have two or more copies, then we can do waitlist for those additional copies and those additional copies, the user can make a decision whether to check it out for one 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:16.000 hour, or for 14 days. 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:29.000 Another question is there an embargo period before you can scan and post a newly published book. So at the Internet Archive, we have a five year window from the publisher from the, from the publish date of the book. 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:36.000 So, books in our collection are now available 2016 and earlier. 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:53.000 And so we stay away from the the first five years of of publishing, unless the publisher or the rights holder ops in and tells us to put the book into control digital lending but through our own acquisition preservation and digitization activities. 00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:56.000 We stay away from the first five years of publishing. 00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:09.000 There's another question in the, in the chat of what can we can I talk about the purchasing option. So, what I had shown was that there was a purchase option, a button that you can click that will take you to better world books if you click on that link 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:20.000 then you'll be taken into better world books, and you can either choose to purchase that book it as a new copy, if, if the if there are new copies available or you can purchase it used. 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:34.000 If there are used copies available in the case of the book that I showed the the south and American literature that book was published in 1954, there is no e book available for it and the book is long since out of print. 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:49.000 So, I think that there may be one copy available for purchase at Better World books but the, you know, the way that you can now read the book is through control digital lending. 00:25:49.000 --> 00:26:04.000 So here's another one, another question. How long does the previous borrow need to wait to renew the item. So if with our one hour loans at the end of the period, you're, you can either return the book early, or the machine will return it for you. 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:18.000 At the end of your loan period and at that point. Then, whomever is wanting to read the book next can and that's if that's someone else in the queue or if that's the person who just returned the book, you can check the book out again. 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:31.000 And so the how long between borrowing the there, there's, I don't believe that there's a pause period so you can you can keep reading. There are limits to the number of times that you could check a book out in a day. 00:26:31.000 --> 00:26:35.000 But yeah, you can you can keep reading. 00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:39.000 I'm not seeing any other oh yeah here's another question. 00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:51.000 Why not lend multiple digital copies regardless of how many paper copies exist, that's part of the tenants of controlled digital lending so we have to maintain that owned to loan ratio between the number of physical copies in hand and the number of digital 00:26:51.000 --> 00:27:01.000 copies Lent. So in the case of the south and American literature, we have a single copy a single physical copy the one that we've acquired and digitize. 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:18.000 We have then a single electronic copy that we can allow people to check out through controlled digital lending. That's one of the main controls in control digital lending is maintaining that owned to loan ratio. 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:30.000 Yeah, and then another question of notices some of the books can be checked out for longer than one hour and what's the criteria for that. It's almost exclusively about how it is exclusively about how many copies we have in our system. 00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:39.000 If we have one copy if we have a single physical copy, then that book, the digital copy can be checked out for an hour. If we have two or more physical copies. 00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:55.000 Then, the first copy can be checked out for an hour and additional copies can be checked out either for an hour or for 14 days depending on the user's circulation preference. 00:27:55.000 --> 00:28:11.000 Here's oh here's a great question do you monitor usage and purchase additional copies, if it is high use. We do look at, at maintaining a good balance of, how many copies Do we need for a given title and if there are titles that are that are used than 00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:24.000 we do look to make additional acquisitions for those books so like all libraries we're looking at demand driven acquisitions and circulation. 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:26.000 I think that's. 00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:36.000 Oh, here's a final question I'll take that one and then we'll go back into the presentation and I also will have additional time for additional questions at the end. 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:47.000 So, we have some unique books and they are on there no copies, and they're super expensive in my collection. Can we retain them, but have them scanned and an open library.org. 00:28:47.000 --> 00:29:03.000 Yes. So we work with many libraries hundreds of libraries in partnership to digitize their collections and make them available. And so, reach out to me, and I can walk you through our digitization. 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:16.000 The way that we do book digitization I can connect you with our with our folks, but you will, I'll address this in a second, that you will have to have circulation control for any of those books that are in copyright, and I'll talk about that in just 00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:32.000 a minute. Actually I think that's probably a good, a good segue into the next section. So, at the Internet Archive we run our open libraries program which provides libraries with easy low barrier way of participating in control digital lending. 00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:49.000 And here's how it works. So as part of our program will run an overlap analysis, we asked a library to provide you or Mark records, and we'll use your mark records to compare your physical holdings with our digital holdings, where there's a match. 00:29:49.000 --> 00:30:01.000 Then we'll give you the information, so you can build a link and bring that link into your catalog, so that your users can discover the books at the Internet Archive is digitized through your local catalog. 00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:16.000 The once we make that comparison, then and then the, the, the next question that we ask libraries is have those matched copies are there any that you're willing to put into control digital lending so that we have those additional copies so the more than 00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:30.000 the one copy that we've acquired and digitized, and we have. There are more than 80 libraries that are participating in our open libraries program and there's more than 40 libraries that are contributing into our lending counts giving additional copies, 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:43.000 based on the physical non circulating books that are on their shelves. So that's how we get to scale, that's how we get additional copies in the open libraries program is through our network of participating libraries. 00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:55.000 Importantly, there's no cost to the library or to the patron for participating. It doesn't cost for the library to participate. It doesn't cost anything for a patron to check out the book. 00:30:55.000 --> 00:31:07.000 The, all you have to have to check out a book at the Internet Archive is an email address and an internet connection, and you can check out up to five books at a time and it's free, again, entirely non commercial entirely free for usage. 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:22.000 And finally, just to read the state again we have more than 80 libraries that are participating in the open libraries program. Now, one of the the main controls, as I mentioned a couple of times is the only to loan ratio between the number of physical 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:33.000 copies in the system and the number of digital copies that are left. And so participating libraries, always asked, Does that mean that we have to control circulation for books that are in control digital lending. 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:43.000 And the answer is yes, circulation control is an important part of our program or any control digital lending program at one of the main controls in control digital Linda. 00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:58.000 Now, how you implement that is a local library decision and we don't make local decisions, and I can give you some examples. So, some libraries are only putting materials into control digital lending that are inherently non circulating like materials 00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:13.000 from reference collection or in special collections, and some libraries are using control digital lending for materials that are in off site storage or enclosed branches or in in some of the cases still today, closed systems. 00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:27.000 So I want to do a deeper dive on one library, just in the in the interest of time so you can see how they're using control digital lending and the open libraries program, and that book that library is the Boston Public Library. 00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:39.000 So the Boston Public Library has a collection called the Alice in Jordan collection and it's a historic collection of children's literature. This dates back to the 1850s, and as a contemporary collection. 00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:50.000 There are new materials that are added to it all of the time. More than 200,000 books in this research collection, but that collection is unavailable to the public. 00:32:50.000 --> 00:33:01.000 Here's a shot of the one range of the books in the Jordan collection and you want you can see as this is off site. These books are non circulating it's a research collection. 00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:13.000 And so, Boston Public Library is curating this collection, and yet the taxpayers, don't have access to this collection because it's offside and because it's your research collection. 00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:23.000 So Boston Public Library, wanting to look to see, well, how many of the books that were in the Jordan collection have already been digitized and could be PL Boston Public Library. 00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:39.000 Use control digital lending to provide access to the books that were in the Jordan collection. And the answer is an emphatic. Yes. So, the ppl gave us Mark records just for the Jordan collection as a comparison not their entire library, the decision that 00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:52.000 the Boston Public Library made for the way that they wanted to work with control digital lending and the open libraries program was just to look at the Jordan collection because of the controls that they already have in place because it's inherently non 00:33:52.000 --> 00:34:01.000 circulating. So that's what they were comfortable considering for control digital lending and that's what they handed over to us in the mark records. 00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:16.000 And so we made that comparison and found that of the more than 200,000 books that were in the Jordan collection, more than 74,000 of those have already been digitized by the through the Internet Archive we've acquired a copy digitize the copy and made 00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:35.000 it available that match that we make in the, in doing the overlaps that match is based on is bn. So we're looking at first at ESPN, then at other identifiers like LCC ends or OCLC identifiers, but primarily we're making that match on ESPN. 00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:50.000 And what I want you to remember. And keep in mind is this was a metadata only analysis, Boston Public Library didn't scan any of these books they were the the originals are sitting on the Boston Public Library shelf and an out of circulation, but what 00:34:50.000 --> 00:35:04.000 they did was give us their mark records to make that comparison so we've compared just based on metadata nothing physically moved. Just give us the MARC records will run that overlap will tell you which of those books are in have already been digitized 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:19.000 and give you links so that you can bring those back into your catalog, download something else that's that I think is really good and valuable as, and I've heard the same from the folks out at ppl is that this collection grows as we add new books and 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:35.000 we rerun the overlap and we do that on a quarterly basis we asked for fresh records from our library partners, so that we are always staying in sync with what's on the shelves in the library, and then making making that overlap, and we run that overlap 00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:52.000 process again for the library on a quarterly basis until because we're adding in 2000 books a day into our into our digital collection libraries are getting additional books, added into their collection, just through our acquisition and digitization activities. 00:35:52.000 --> 00:36:03.000 So that's a quick story of how Boston Public Library and other libraries are using the control digital landing in the open libraries program. Sounds good. 00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:15.000 Right. And certainly, we've gotten great feedback from from bbl staff and from community members, because they finally have access to these books that otherwise are unavailable. 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:27.000 But unfortunately, not everyone is in support of control digital lending. So in June of last year for publishers brought a lawsuit against the Internet Archive over control digital lending and the National Emergency library. 00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:38.000 Now, you haven't heard me talk about the national emergency library today and that's because it's closed. The nel ran for 84 days from March 24 to June 16 of last year. 00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:49.000 During the early onset of the covert pandemic. It was a temporary measured response to the near total shutdown of our educational and library systems. 00:36:49.000 --> 00:37:05.000 Last spring. And so, while the lawsuit mentioned, the National Emergency library the bulk of the complaint is about control digital lending CBl is the true target and what the publishers are hoping to stop to stop libraries from owning books and moving 00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:12.000 us into renting access to being to lease content and not to own it. 00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:24.000 And so beyond the lawsuit. There are other groups that don't support controlled digital lending and unfortunately some of them are putting out misinformation and intentional disinformation about the practice and and you've probably seen some of it online 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:37.000 and thought is that right Is it is it illegal to scan an entire book, I thought you could do that through fair use, and in fact, you can. And so that's why we put together this session we actually encounter so much of that misinformation that we decided 00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:50.000 to counter it with myth busting webinar. Earlier this year in February. And so we took the top 10 myths about control digital lending and we assembled a panel of experts to bust them one by one. 00:37:50.000 --> 00:38:05.000 We recorded this session, we've shared that in the in the links document. And we also have the video on the Internet Archive, so that any of us can do who are encountering information or misinformation about control digital lending can just drop a link 00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:21.000 into the, into those myths into the into the video and say no, here in fact is the reality of the situation, it's really come in really very handy, I realized to, I'm going to paste again into the chat, a link to that link document that I've mentioned 00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:31.000 here a couple of times just to make sure if any late comers showed up you didn't you might not have had those links so here is the link to all of the all of the links. 00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:36.000 Here's the document which has all of the links that we're sharing throughout today. 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:50.000 In addition to myth busting. We also then did a session in June based on the success of the myth busting seminar where we answered the most frequently asked questions about control digital lending so we crowdsource this as well we put out a call for questions. 00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:58.000 What questions do you have about CCL pull those together and assembled a panel of experts to help provide an answer. 00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:13.000 And here's what I'm glad to say today. It's working. Control digital lending is now used by hundreds of libraries, and it's drawing statements of support like from if law the International Federation of library associations, who issued this really incredibly 00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:30.000 strong statement of support for control digital lending in June of this year, and early in the statement, the authors highlight the economic case for CCL writing that a key reason why CBl is necessary, is the failure of markets to provide access to works 00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:34.000 in digital form on a consistently fair basis. 00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:52.000 I love this. And I'll say that the the writers of this statement then kind of went on to blaze a trail of equally important statements about the value of control digital lending for library so it's really great to see this kind of a strong statement from 00:39:52.000 --> 00:40:05.000 an international leader, like Islam, other supporters so library futures in Georgetown Law collaborated on a new policy document called control digital lending unlocking the library's full potential. 00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:21.000 We actually hosted a session last week that walked through that document, and the mat link is available in the links document will also follow up today's session with an email that that has all of the links that we're sharing here. 00:40:21.000 --> 00:40:35.000 There are also now library organizations that are thinking broadly about control digital lending and what else can CBl be used for and so there are organizations that are thinking about control digital lending and Interlibrary Loan together, and last 00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:49.000 month the Boston library consortium announced its plans to implement CDL for Interlibrary Loan library features, has also put out a statement describing how CBl and Interlibrary Loan work together. 00:40:49.000 --> 00:41:04.000 Now, CBl isn't just being considered in the United States as we saw earlier from the statement, just a couple of weeks ago, the research libraries UK released this thought piece, making the case for control digital lending in the UK. 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:19.000 And what's great is that the community of practice around CDL is thriving again you know hundreds of libraries now participating in one form or another of control digital lending, and one of the best ways to stay up to date is through the CDN implement 00:41:19.000 --> 00:41:30.000 urs group which now hosts monthly meetings, and I want to just take a pause here to say it's, it's really interesting and quite validating before. 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:45.000 The, the only place where you would hear about control digital lending, or the only forums are about control digital lending we're ones at the Internet Archive was organizing our annual library Leaders Forum, this this series was one of the ways we would 00:41:45.000 --> 00:42:00.000 hear about control and digital lending. So, you know, dozens of people 50 to 60 to 80 people coming together on an annual basis talking about CDO. Now, there are hundreds of libraries that are talking about see do on a daily and monthly basis and it's 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:09.000 not the Internet Archive is not at the center quite the reverse for the CL implementations group we had to ask to participate and to be let in, and we think that's fantastic. 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:22.000 The more libraries doing the country that are doing control digital lending, the better off we all are, because this is an important way for libraries to use that investment that we've made in our physical collections, and why I think there's really an 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:34.000 important and maybe surprising turn of events is the number of vendors who have made public statements about how they're incorporating CL into their products like PepsiCo and x Libra. 00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:49.000 So now I mean at this point you may be asking yourself well if there's a lawsuit Why are library still interested in controlled digital lending, and the answer is really simple, because CDL solves very real problems for libraries in both in Kovac closures 00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:51.000 and beyond. 00:42:51.000 --> 00:43:15.000 So over the past year we've heard from thousands of users who've been able to check out books from our library through controlled digital lending while they're either their local library was closed service was disrupted, or they just weren't comfortable 00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:28.000 The impact has really been huge. So we've heard from researchers like Paul be from New York, who has used our library to find out of print books like the example that we showed with the book from Duke University Press. 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:35.000 Paul notes that CDL keeps research, knowledge and culture alive for those who value it. 00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:51.000 We've heard from users all over the world like 100, and educator from Mexico City who teaches librarians and Alexandra has offered our CDN library to her library students to meet their information so you can meet people with pre existing conditions have 00:43:51.000 --> 00:44:06.000 been especially challenged to continue their reading and research like Tori from California. Tori reads books on ancient history and religion which aren't found widely in public libraries further Tori has an autoimmune disease so the ability to read in 00:44:06.000 --> 00:44:11.000 the safety of their home is important, which is possible through digital lending. 00:44:11.000 --> 00:44:24.000 And the messages that we've gotten probably more from any more than any of our those from parents like Jessica in California who thanked us for helping kids stay connected with their school work. 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:41.000 So how to participate. I hope that I've stimulated some of you to think I'd like to learn more about this program and here's how you can do so, the shared in the links document is a link to join the open libraries, and you can learn more information about 00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:49.000 the program, the form itself is a Google Form it's intentionally short it's very straightforward. You can even do it from your phone you can do it right now. 00:44:49.000 --> 00:45:01.000 If you were interested in participating in our program, and a message from one of our participating libraries, Milton Public Library and Ontario, the statements from Mark Williams, the Chief Librarian. 00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:13.000 Who says you know that the content is amazing the patrons think it's phenomenal the board thinks it's a great idea. Always good to get the board involved, and to get their support. 00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:31.000 Everyone believes that this is an important service edition, and I'll say that this is the kind of message that we've gotten routinely from the partners in our open libraries program as we've both during the pandemic and, and after and beyond. 00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:44.000 So, as we wind down here today I want to leave you with some options for how to keep engaging. Now, here's one of the things that I know again and having talked with so many librarians is that not every library is going to participate in control digital 00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:57.000 lending it's a it's a library by library choice. And so if you're listening in, and you're at a library or the research organization or but that's not participating and control digital lending, but you want to stay up to date, and you want to stay involved 00:45:57.000 --> 00:46:04.000 in the library practice, I would encourage you individually to join our empowering the libraries campaign. 00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:13.000 So the purpose of the empowering libraries campaign is to raise awareness about control digital lending and to continue to build support for the library practice. 00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:26.000 Earlier this year, we launched the empowering life, empowering library's website, which you can find that empowering libraries.org. This site contains resources like the CBl explained video that I showed the top of the session. 00:46:26.000 --> 00:46:39.000 Links to webinars and will also soon have links to the 50 plus blog posts that we've written in the past year, year and a half, related to control digital lending and digital ownership. 00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:55.000 And if you want to stay connected then join our empowering libraries email list we send out a weekly newsletter with latest updates, news and impact stories about about digital lending and control digital lending and you can sign up at empowering libraries 00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:57.000 work. 00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:59.000 So my final takeaways are this. 00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:13.000 Before we go into more questions. There are more libraries than ever before using control digital lending to reach patrons, there are more readers and researchers accessing books through control digital lending than ever before. 00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:25.000 The open libraries program is growing. Lots of libraries are looking into control digital lending to meet their the needs of their patrons, again, both while their library was closed or had disrupted service and even now, now that they're back in their 00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:35.000 libraries their understanding how control digital lending can be used to meet their programmatic needs to meet their mission. So, through the internet archives open libraries program. 00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:50.000 We offer libraries, a simple no cost way of testing out CDs and libraries are taking us up on that offer. So here's what I see from my experience, the future is bright and the community is thriving because control digital lending and the open libraries 00:47:50.000 --> 00:47:55.000 program solve real world problems for libraries and the communities that we serve. 00:47:55.000 --> 00:48:09.000 So, if you'd like to learn more. Come tomorrow to the library Leaders Forum so we have a session tomorrow you can register at library leaders forum.org two full sessions both one tomorrow and one next Wednesday. 00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:26.000 And the session tomorrow we're going to have a panel conversation with copyright experts publishers authors libraries and librarians, talking about digital ownership and the future of library collections, asking a question of will libraries own books 00:48:26.000 --> 00:48:30.000 in 25 years, not least them, but own them. 00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:45.000 So I'd encourage anyone who's interested. Join in the sessions tomorrow and next Wednesday there they're going to be really good good conversations. And another way that you can kind of engage with us and learn more is this year is the 25th anniversary 00:48:45.000 --> 00:49:01.000 of the Internet Archive the whole organization celebrating our 25th anniversary this year, and on October 21 so next Thursday. We're going to have a virtual event where we bring together the the dreamers and the creators to talk about the successes of 00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:11.000 the Internet Archive and we're going you know the the future really depends on us access to information is not a given. And so if you value it, you have to protect it. 00:49:11.000 --> 00:49:22.000 And that's what we're doing through our anniversary campaigns. So I'd encourage people to go check that out@anniversary.archive.org. 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:28.000 And now in our remaining time, I promise 15 minutes but I see that there are some additional questions, so I'll. 00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:41.000 If you have to go I understand we all get zoom fatigue. So please, here here's the final things that I'll leave you with if, if, if you have to go and before I dive into the remainder remaining questions. 00:49:41.000 --> 00:49:51.000 I'm going to be following up with everyone who's registered today with a link with a follow up email will have a link to, to the video that will be up tomorrow. 00:49:51.000 --> 00:50:08.000 And we'll also have those links that I've mentioned and shared in the links document so thanks to everyone who's who stayed with us this far and I'm going to dive back into the, into the questions and help some help answer some more. 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:16.000 Here's another question, do many libraries have your collection integrated into their systems with the link to access your collection. Yes, We have a number of libraries. 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:29.000 In addition to all those at libraries that are participating. They have all integrated or they all have the ability to integrate links to our collection, but additionally, all of the resources that the Internet Archive makes are available for anyone to 00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:39.000 bring into their library collection whether you're participating in the open libraries program or not. The open libraries program just provides a convenient way to make that overlap. 00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:56.000 And this is a question that I think came up earlier I'm not sure if it's showing up in the, in the results in the q&a here but did come up earlier was are you planning to make matches, improve your matching algorithm so that you'll find not only the books 00:50:56.000 --> 00:51:09.000 books that are in copywriting, but also books that are in the public domain and yes we are working on that we're looking so that we can basically tell a library of all of the books that you have in your physical collection here's the digital version of 00:51:09.000 --> 00:51:23.000 that sitting at the Internet Archive that your patrons can use. So we're working on that to to make that to make that interaction a little bit more broad, so that all books, not just books that are in copyright. 00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:28.000 Other questions here. 00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:33.000 Great questions here. 00:51:33.000 --> 00:51:47.000 Oh great oh so this is a wonderful, wonderful book is published only in a digital format. So, we do have born digital materials in our collection in fact we work with a publisher called pm press they're an independent publisher in Oakland, in the Bay 00:51:47.000 --> 00:52:04.000 Area. And they do something remarkable, which is they sell eat pubs, not least them, but sell them we have purchased outright we have a receipt, not an agreement for the books from pm press those books have been brought into our collection, and we're 00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:21.000 now lending them through control digital lending and Ramsey The Ramsey command the editor and publisher of pm press is like you're a library, we want our books to be in your library he thinks it's fantastic that the his books are available through controlled 00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:38.000 digital index. So, good, good measure there so the answer is. Yeah, absolutely. We can pulled born digital materials into our collection. And with those books with pm press it's the same as our physical collection, we have a single digital copy and we 00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:54.000 lend that single copy we maintain, regardless of whether the book is in physical or in digital form, we're basing our lending off of the number of physical copies off of the number of copies that we own and in the case of pm press We own a single copy. 00:52:54.000 --> 00:53:06.000 Another question is will this webinar be available to view Yes, absolutely. So we are recording this session, and you'll get a link to it in the follow up email that you'll get tomorrow morning. 00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:09.000 Another question. 00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:24.000 Oh, so this is a question about like the the circulation so the, you only have to suppress circulation for a book that you have said you are contributing into Ireland and counts if we just make the match and we just tell you hear the, here's the link 00:53:24.000 --> 00:53:25.000 to this book. 00:53:25.000 --> 00:53:40.000 If we're just doing that match, you don't have to suppress the circulation for those match books, you only have to control circulation for books that you have said, and here's a copy on my shelves that you can listen to that we have an additional copy 00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:57.000 or a second or third copy to lend. So, the circulation control is only for books that you're contributing in not just for the not for the books that we've just made that overlap on. And if you have additional questions, please don't hesitate to ask and 00:53:57.000 --> 00:54:00.000 follow up. 00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:11.000 A great a note here that that you're seeing as well since everyone has access to the, to the q amp a is that student and staff appreciate the fact that the archive is there and accessible to them. 00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:21.000 I regularly check the Internet Archive to provide the link in our course reserves items, thanks so much for that. That's a message that we that we love to hear we want to be useful. 00:54:21.000 --> 00:54:33.000 We want to be able to make our collection as widely available as possible and we want to be useful to our library partners. 00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:39.000 I think looking at the questions that I think I've hit most of them. 00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:43.000 But here's what I'll say just in the interest of time. 00:54:43.000 --> 00:54:58.000 This is often the start of a conversation so if you have additional questions as you want to learn more come to the library Leaders Forum session. But certainly, reach out to me, I would love to have a one on one session with either you with your with 00:54:58.000 --> 00:55:14.000 your management team with your all staff, whatever the grouping is. Let's keep this conversation going. Keep asking questions, and let's look at what are the specifics about your library, what, how can control digital lending How can the open libraries 00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:32.000 program really help. So I'll wind down here, so that everyone has maybe a few minutes before your next zoom call or your next meeting so final words for me is thank you for your, your time and your attention today, really appreciate the, the number of 00:55:32.000 --> 00:55:36.000 questions that we've got the excellent questions that have come through. 00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:46.000 What's great to see is that you're, you're all starting to dive into some deeper topics which means that you're, you're getting it it's starting to see if its way and so I always appreciate seeing that. 00:55:46.000 --> 00:55:58.000 As I've mentioned a few times. I will be following up today's session with a email tomorrow it will have a link to the recording, it'll have a link to all the links that we've shared here, and additional information. 00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:11.000 So again, thanks for your participation. Thanks for coming today. Come tomorrow to the library Leaders Forum, you can register at library leaders forum.org, and I look forward to talking with many of you again in the future. 00:56:11.000 --> 00:56:41.000 Thanks much.